Originally Posted by
Chiefttp
Flying heavies in the USAF, I was amazed at how difficult is was to to Air Refueling from the right seat versus the standard left seat position when I upgraded to AR Instructor. It took awhile to adjust.
I've heard stories that the pilots on the KC-135 would somehow do an inflight seat swap to get the quals for both pilots in both seats. Apparently they swap without using a third pilot. Is this true?
The tanker pilots seem to guard the yoke on airliner Boeings when they are the pilot monitoring on the takeoff roll. I'm told this comes from some stab malfunction that happened 50 years ago.
Some of the KC-10 drivers have their head buried in the cockpit reading out the ground speed off the screen when you are turning into the gate. Don't they know that they are supposed to be texting their girlfriends at that critical phase of the flight?
